GWU Law School Dean Cited in DOJ Discrimination Complaint

WASHINGTON - Aug. 12, 2025 - PRLog -- In a scathing and frightening letter (https://www.google.com/url?esrc=s&q=&rct=j&sa=U&url=https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1410936/dl%3Finline&ved=2ahUKEwiQgvyngYaPAxV3EFkFHZGbIasQFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw2bPF1o1-1iH7FBRKn2LLG8) which accused George Washington University [GWU] of "acting deliberately indifferent" to antisemitism, the Department of Justice singled out an alleged incident involving its law school.

If true, it is shocking, and presumably would never have occurred if the incident involved groups and causes other than pro-Hamas demonstrators who has illegally established an encampment on GWU's main campus yard and were harassing Jewish students solely because of their religion.

According to the letter, "One Jewish GWU student described being surrounded, harassed, threatened, and then ordered to leave the area immediately by antisemitic protesters after exiting the Law School, which is adjacent to University Yard.   GWU's Assistant Dean of Students instructed the Jewish student to leave because his presence was "antagonizing and provoking the crowd."

Describing another related incident, the letter said "A GWU Police Department officer standing nearby did nothing to prevent or intervene in the incident and instead told the student to leave University Yard for his own safety."

If, instead of a pro-Hamas group, demonstrators supporting the Ku Klux Klan had illegally established an encampment, would an official of the law school or a GWU police officer have ordered a Black student to leave because his very skin color might antagonize and provoke the crowd?

Alternatively, if an angry organizations of incels (men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually) had established an illegal encampment to denounce women, would an official of the law school or a GWU police officer have ordered a female student to leave the area because her very gender might antagonize and provoke the crowd?

The answer to both such questions - and to other hypotheticals involving students harassed because of other religions, races, sexual orientations or identities, etc. also been ordered to leave university property so as not to antagonize or provoke bigoted trespassers on campus who might be antagonized or provoked - is obvious.

So, regardless of how this formal legal complaint is eventually resolved, GWU officials should determine whether the above incidents in fact occurred, and, if so, take appropriate action, says Banzhaf.

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